Inequality

SQUEEZING the top 1% ought to be the most natural thing in the world for politicians seeking to please the masses. Yet, with few exceptions, today’s populist insurgents are more concerned with immigration and sovereignty than with the top rate of income tax. This disconnect may be more than an oddity. It may be a […]

It’s all a matter of degree “HERE’S what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate,” wrote Susan Patton, a human-resources consultant, in 2013. In an infamous letter to the editor of Princeton’s student newspaper, Ms Patton warned female students at the university that they will “never again be surrounded by […]

ONE factor behind the rise of income inequality in America over the past four decades is that the labour market has increasingly favoured the well-educated. Real wages for college graduates have risen by over a third since 1963, whereas wages for those without high-school diplomas have dropped. As more of the economy becomes automated, doomsayers […]

The Democrats are completely uninhibited by the truth. Under even mild scrutiny, their claims that they are foes of income inequality are revealed as hollow at best and are loaded with hypocrisy. Do the Democrats really want to get rid of income …

A Pew Research poll revealed some disappointing news for the vast majority of Americans; we're being screwed financially, and it's worse than we though. There is a wide separation in income for the rich and working class …

That compassion for the rich, and contempt for people who are suffering, was revealed yesterday by outgoing Texas Governor Rick Perry in an interview in the Washington Post. The subject was the crushing income inequality in Texas that, according to …

PALO ALTO, CA—Explaining how economic conditions were drastically altering citizens' behavior and spending patterns, a report released Wednesday by researchers at Stanford Business School revealed that rising income inequality was causing more …

Higher levels of income inequality are directly related to an increase in Black deaths—while the exact opposite is true for white people, a new study revealed in findings that even the researchers were at a loss to explain. The researchers behind the …